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Boils.

Boils don't develop Il fellows moral and
religious growth much, so far as can find
any history of them. Job had 'em bad, and
he cursed the day and services of his BIRTH
for wanting to die Who wouldn't, covered
.all over with "ssre boils" from head to foot,
and bored half TO death with long -winded
homilies from officious friends and neigh
bors, on the moral beauty Of boils as a
chastisement for spiritual sins One boil at
time is more than can stand and cherish
any of those ennobling feelings which ele-
vate mankind. The homlies in addition
wouldn't do at ALL
fellow. | don't mean any Of your little
plebeian cat boils, but a full-grown, we'll
developed boil Of powerful physique. The
martyr sits down in stuffed rocking char,
with a pillow behind his head but he
doesn't sit there five minutes before he
makes up his mind that he would feel better
walking the floor; and at once the easy
chair is abandoned, to ride up and down the
room on "shank's mare He takes a few
turns and very suddenly concludes that the
proper thing to do Is to lie dolg on the sofa ;
but that position proves just as unsatisfac-
tory as all the rest, and he abandons it to
try something else 1t is no use, though. |
entirely agree with Bro. Watts in the sent-
ment of the following lines:
= lis poor relief We gain,
To change the place, but keep the pain
zee.
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ten them through the gospel, as such he
loved them-they were dear TO his heart and
when they turned away from his teachings,
took themselves out from under his pastoral
care-hls heart must have been wrung with
anguish. Every pastor who has had a SINH
lar experience, even on small scale, will
readily conceive that his sufferings must
have been Of very grave kind. Yet, well
do | remember that this good man, Sabbath
after Sabbath, fervently prayed for the bless
lug Of God on the new church which had
sprung up by his side, thus showing how
grace triumphed amidst his trials
Yet these circumstances under which the
new church arose may explain, not justify,
the intense denominational feelings which
characterized this place in former years, and
v hich led to some acts. on both sides, not
in harmony with christian charity. We may
rejoice that better state Of feeling now pre-
walls and that christians holding to the great
vitaIties of the gospel, though differing in
form Of its articles, may love and live as
brethren and strive together for the fur
therance Of the gospel.
b. ". DARLING.
Buehill, Jan. 26, 1887.
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How to Find true Sooiability.

Visit each other as individuals, as families,
as informally as possible, in all the undis-
guised, every day personality of your Utmost
selves. 1t is only on the occasion Of such
visits that real virtues and real faults ex-
hibit themselves 1t is then and there
that neighbors learn each others needs, re-
sources, trials and failures 1t is there that
genuine sympathy is felt and expressed; it
is there that every door and avenue TO the
heart is opened wide; it is then that soul
stands face to face with soul. This is true
sociablity. 1t is this, more than all else,
which shall break down 'those Fictitious dis
tinctions which are permitted to exist in So
ciety, and make the equality of mankind a
living reality"
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National News.

In the Senate Monday afternoon the
24th there was long, animated and able
discussion on Mr. Edmunds' bill to author
ize the President to protect and defend the
rights of American fishing vessels. The
bill was passed 46 to /. Riddeberger voted
in the negative.
President and Mrs. Cleveland attended
the charity ball at Baltimore Monday night
the 24th.
-Four children were burned to death at
Oil City, Pa, the 24th.
The Rev. II. b. Carpenter, of Boston,
who is an Engishman by birth, has lately
received an autograph letter from Lord Ten
nyson highly praising one of his recent poet
ical effusions.
Senator Frank Hlscock has classic
biography. He was born in Pompey, stu
died law in Tully and lives in Syracuse.
-E1- Mayor Cooper Of New York says
that his brother-in-law Mayor Hewitt, is
very sick man. He is suffering from sclatic
rheumatism and is unable to move even
about his house. When Mr.. Cooper visited
him he was lying upon sofa, to which he
had been carried from his bed. Grave fears
are entertained for the mayo's recovery by
his intimate friends, though Mr.. Cooper
states there is no immediate danger
The Gloucester fishermen are jublant
over the action OF the Senate en- the Nd
mlnds bill At cabinet meeting the 2jth
the bill was discussed at length.
AL the London papers severely crtIclse
the debates on the EdmundS bill and the
vote of the Senate.
SIX new cases Of small pox were found
in New York city Wednesday.
In secret session Of the Senate Wednes-
day tie nomination Of J. {. Matthews, Of
Albany, \. Y, colored recorder Of deeds Of
the District OF Columbia, was discussed for
an hour and rejected.
The original river and harbor bill pass.
ed in its third reading Wednesday.
Boston talks of electing Mrs. Ellen II.
Richards to a place on the board Of super
vlsors Of public schools.
Lew 7. Morton has rented for the
coming season the Saratoga cottage which
he and his family occupied last summer,
Miss Mary Horton has been elected
and sworn in as recording clerk Of the Ohio
State Senate Miss Horton is a graduate
Of the Boston high school.
Schooner Carthage Of Gloucester and
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State New S.

As man, as fifty people in Belfast have
expressed wish TO adopt little Nellie
Crockett. the twelve Years old daughter Of
the murdere4 RueI Crockett. Nellie has
been at j. F. Wilson's for several
weeks, but rr brother-in-aw, Mr. Tracy,
will take he. to Enfield. Attorney General
Baker SAID she was the best child witness ne
ever saw.
detective Simpson arrested in Litch
field recently James Corvlle on charge Of
incest.
The graduating exercises Of the Gorham
Normal school took place Thursday. Ihs
graduating class was composed OF Young
ladies' and four young men.
Tie body Of Charles Welch who was
drowned in the keanebec river last week
was recovered the 24lh ult.
The brother of Mrs. Dancette who was
supposed TO have committed suicide IN
Lewiston SAYS that she is alive and well in
Massachusetts.
A man at kennebunk named Seth
Robinson was poisoned by taking alcohol
dosed with arnica the 22nd ult.
The Crockett murder case will be car
RED to the law court on exceptions.
Elmer u. Morrill, and George +. Dut
ton, indicted for the murder Of Matilda
Cook, were arragned in Lewiston Nednes-
day and pleaded not guilty.
The State convention Of Knights of
Labor assembled in the Knights of Labor
hall at Augusta at 10 o'clock Tuesday morn
ing the 25th. About 100 delegates were in
attendance. The committee on credentials
was chosen and committee of five to 90
before the legislative committee in favor OF
the ten hour law. New delegates were ad-
mitted at the afternoon session.
The combined estate Of the lac Gov
ernor Coburn and his brother Philander has
turned out much better than was expected.
The executors think that S4 900, 900 at least
will be realized, which will be distributed
among the heirs, and be applied 10 the pay
ment of the public bequest made by the
governor. The decision of the court sus-
tanning Governor Coburns will and the
abandonment of the legal contest over 1t by
the recent settlement between the heirs OF
both estates enables the executors to pay the
legaces within the two years limit provided
in the will 1t is understood that all the
public bequests, amounting to Sl,00o,ooo,
will be promptly paid.
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CITY OF EUREKA, Dec. u. lSst

-LITTELL'S LIVING AGE. The num-
bers of The Ltcjng Age for January 22d and
29th contain. the Aurora BorcaIis, Elm
burgh; 'Locksley Hail. and the Jubilee by
Mr.. Gladstone, Niheteeath century,: Emln
Bey: Gordon's Lieutenant. F0H"t9htty;
Lady Duff Gordon, The Philosophers Win
dow, and A Plea for an Old Friend, Temple
Bar; The Letters of Charles Lamb, and Sun
derland and Sacharissa, UacmHan, Convicts
in Parliament, Time: Incidents of Rent-Col-
lection in Ireland, Chambers, Irish Charac-
teristies, Spectator; South-Italian Courtship,
Saturday Rerielr, The Caravanserai in Per-
sia, st. Jdmes's; Foreign Ministers and For
eign Languages, London Times, with INSTALL
ments of "A Secret Inheritance" and Major
and Minor" and poetry.
For fifty-two numbers of siXty-four large
pages each Cor mere than $500 pages year,
the subscription price 1881 is low; while for
Sl0.50 the publishers offer to serd any one OF
the American $4.00 monthlies or weeklies with
The LiriRg Age for year, both postpaid.
Lttell & Co., Boston, are the publishers.
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Trust to Coming Years.

When Wickitfe, the great religious re-
former, died, his body was denied Christian
burial, even deemed unworthy of burial in
the soil of England. II was, therefore,
burned to ashes and the ashes thrown into
the Avon river. Hence the prophetic stanza
as TO his influence that would survive him
The Avon to the Severn flows,
The Severn to the
50 Wckitfes ashes shall be spread
Wide as the waters be.
Wicklife's influence thus prehgured has
in very truth become wide as the waters
be-" In Wickllife we have an illustration
of the fate of all true great reformers "born
too soon for the comfort Of thor days 10
such, Charles Mackays Eternal Justice
has this TO say:
Be- wiser than hypcer';
Augment the range of human power,
And trust 10 coming years.
They may call thee wizard and monk ac-
cursed,
And load thee with disprat>c;
Thou vert born five hundred wears too
soon
For the comfort Of thy days;
But not too soon for human Kind.
Time hath reward in store;
And the demons of our -lrts become
The saints that we adore.
The blind can see, the slave is lord;
So round and round we run,
And ever the wrong /, proved to be
wrong,
And ever j. justice done
Yes, If you have revelations and discov-
cries that others have not and launch them
upon the quiet surface of thought, they will
surely disturb the waters. Or, if YOU have
stripped error Of it, DISCUSSES, your good
will As surely be evil spoken of. But this is
the cross lake il up. 1t wins the crown
and wears il, For pilgrim on earth, thy
home is n heaven; stranger here, thou art
the guest Of God Thou vert not born too
soon fir haman kind Pod on and trust to
coming years
III tlr above, which clip from IN exchange
was MT inspired by a recent editorial IN the AMER
IcA>, then 1t, author and the AMERICAN happened
without rolusIon, to think very nearly alike. see
ELLSWORTH AMrRIclN Of Jan. 20, i,e7,-Ep.
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Annual Meeting of Woman's National
Relief Corps.

AT the third annual meeting ofthe De-
partment of Maine National Woman's Re
lief Corps at Bath, Jan - the following otti-
GERS were elected Department president
Miss Annie f. Wood, Winthrop; 5. v.
President, Ann McCorlis, Dexter ]. v.
President, Mary Hanson, Sherman Mills :;
Sec, Florence Davis, Winthrop; Treas, Mrs.
Azuba Bagley Lewiston ; Chap. Grace Howe,
Lewiston; Insp., Mrs. Lorna Clayton, Bangor;
Installing Officer, Abbie Fernald, Winthrop !,
Councillor, Mrs Emily V. Iittlefeld, Ban
port, Mary n. Haskell, Lewiston, Maria
Sylvester, Pittsfeld, Nellie Stafford, Skow-
hogan, Annie Stevens, Norridgewock; dele
gates to National convention, ,Cyranthy Hop
kins, Searsport, Mrs. Belle Palmer, Monroe,
Mrs Cole, Bangor, Mrs. Orila Whitcomb,
Searsport; alternates, Mrs. Abbie Fernald,
Searsport Mrs Lorna CLAYTON Bangor, Mrs.
Hattie Douglas, Lewiston, Mrs. Rose Prem
tss, Lewiston.
showed gain in membership for the past
year of 276. Amount spent for charity by
the different corps, S742, After the finish
of the business Of the convention, the doors
were opened and Commander in Chief FAIR
child and goodly delegation of comrades
were admitted. Commander FairchiId ad-
dressed the convention and spoke in fiatter-
ing terms Of the good work the Woman's
National Corps were doing in assisting the
G. A. K. in their work throughout the coun-
try. Following were words of good cheer
by Post Dept. Commander Lane, Assistant
Adjutant General Hill, DIR. Howe of Lewis
ton, Major Clayton Of Bangor and others.
The retiring Department President, Mrs.
Emily d. Littlefeld, made feeling remarks
touching upon the past two years that
she has been president Of the department.
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Der Oak Und Der Vine.

| don'd vas preaching voman's rights,
Or anyding like dot,
Und likes TO see all peoples
Shust gondented nit dheir lot
Budt | wants to gondradict dot shap
Dot made dis leedle shoke:
"a woman vas der giinging vine,
Und man, der shturdy oak
Berhaps, sometimes. dot may pc drue;
Budt, den dimes oudt off nine.
l find me oudt dot man himself
Vas peen der glinging vine;
IND ven hees frendts dhey all vas gone.
Und he vas shust "tead proke,"
Dots When der woman shteps righdt in,
Und peen der shturdy oak.
Shust go CUP to der baseball grounds
Und see dhose "shturdy oaks"
All planted roundt ubon der seats
Shust hear dheir laughs un SMOKES.
Dhen see dhose vomens at der tubs.
Nit CLOTHES oudt on der lines:
Which vas der shturdy oaks, mine frendts.
Und which der glinging vines:
Ven Sickness in der household comes,
Und weeks und weeks he shtays,
Who vas id fighdts him mitoundt resdt.
Dhose weary nighdts una days:
Who beace und comfort always prings.
Und cools dot fefered prov:
More like id vas der tender vine
Dot OAK he glings to. now.
"Man wants budt leedle here pelow,'
Der boet Won time said;
Dhere's leedle dot man he d0n'd want.
dink id means. inshted;
Cnd when der years keep rolling on.
Dheir cares und droubles bringing,
He wants to pc der shturdy oak,
Und, also, do der glinging.
MAYBE, when oaks dhey Cling some more.
Tnd don'd so shturdy peen,
Der glinging vines dhey haf some shance
To helb run Life's mssheen.
In helt und sickness, shoy und pain.
In calm or shtormv yeddher.
Twas heddher dot dhose oaks and vines
Should always Cling togeddher.
CHARLES FoLLEN ADAMS, in Harpe
Magazine for December.
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Use after each meal Scott's Emulsion; it is
as paIatable as milk and easily digested. Deli
cate people improve rapidly with its use. For
Consumption, Throat affections and Bronchitis
it is unequaed. DIR. THos. PRIM, Ala. says
81 used Scott's Emulsion on a child eight
months old: he gained four pounds a month"
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tlNeS OF the I nlteu states Ill tOU8ItsS dS-
sembled-Gentlemen:
The Chamber of commerce of the city of
Eureka, the principal seaport of northern Cal
ifornia, respectfully present the following
memorial, and most earnestly ask your candid
consideration of the facts herein pre-
sented:
First-As to the commercial importance of
Humboldt bay. 1t is the gate to the great high
way of commerce for sixty miles south and
seventy miles north, and of an average width
of sixty miles inland, containing about 800
square miles of territory rich in resources of
undeveloped wealth, first among which are
1000 square miles of redwood forest of great
yalue-greater by far than any other body Of
timber of equal extent in the world. Contig-
uous to and among and on either side of this
body of timber are valleys of great fertility of
soil, large territory of excellent grazing
lands, mines of precious metals OF
unknown extent and deposits of coal.
Second-Our population in 1850 was 5000,
but has now increased to 25,00o inhabitants.
One assessment roll shows an assessed valua-
ton Of SlO.l9ti,36 ON l,16S,39563 acres i'll
Humboldt county alone. About 2500 men are
employed in lumberinS in its various branch
es; the remainder 'hsaSeu III "si''u''''''
I mechanical pursuits ana various "tnc' oP'''-
tloHs incident to a thrifty an" prosperous COM
munlty. our terfllor! h'ai''op '.,',u,"-
very IHSe PoPu'h''""' IA LAY = 'N'
OF TINS county are beyond any poN''u''
cohceINe" o' 'H ~ f''''N'
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For the Ellsworth American.
Sir Walter Scott.

The recollection of Sir Walter Scott's
hospitality at Abbotsford has been green
spot in the memory of many writes and
travellers.
Mrs. Somervle relates the following
pleasing anecdote: | shall never forget
the supper-parties at Abbotsford, when
Scott was in the highest glee, telling anus
ing tales, ancient legends, ghost AMI witch
stories, Then Adam Ferguson would sing
"The Laird of Cookpen,' and other comic
songs. When it was time to go away, all
arose, and, standing hand in hand round the
table, Scott taking the lead, we sang in full
CHORUS:
''Weal may we a be,
Ill may we never be,
Health to the King
And the guide companie.'
At that time who was the author Of the
Waverly novels was unknown. There was
much speculation and curiosity on the sub
ject. While talking about one that had
just been published my son remarked, 81
knew all these stories long ago, for Mr..
Scott writes oil the dinner-tabe. When he
has finished he puts the green cloth with the
papers IN the corner of the dining room,
and when he goes out, Charlie Scott and l
read the stories."
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4 4 VIZ. Il Ii Rich Posi-. No 55-Frst and Third
MondA, each month except June, July and August,
IL meets only on First MONDAY.
woNANs RELIEF CoEr>-E',ry Friday afternoon al ?
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CsirLp oRDrR or woKkN, Second and Fourth Tue
days.
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DIRECTORY.
ELLSWORTH Po>T OFFICE.

pIEECrORI.
COMMUNICATIVE hing at 10 80 =. NJ, sabbath
School at II IS 4 NJ. Evening Service at :SoP.s
BAPrtsT sunday School i2,g T. ". services at
200 and at Pray,r Meeting TUESDAY evening att co
FKEL BAPTI>T-rT,Aol ~ a. lU-Y1 4. NJ. Sabbath
Sshool nIn-diateiN following morning services,
UEIIAkAS.-Church service at 10 ~ and sunday
Schoo q: II IS 4. "
CArHoLIc-Preaching at le 30 a sabbath schools at
MkTBuDI-T Preaching AT no n PRAYER Meeting
SUNDAY Schoo Il ~ N
CEIuS TENPEEANCE MKkTISG--kyeTy sunday ats: 50
n a. Methodist Nestry.
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Published by request.
M EN- oRiAL.

To the honorable the senators and representa-
tiyes of the United States in Congress as
1. L.,
The Penn's Grove record., 1887-04-16
NEWS OF THE WEEK

by a "local collision of freight
trains near Bedford, Indiana. on the
9Th, the conductor and a woman were
fatally injured. Two other women sus-
tanned severe injuries.
AT the Lake Angelica mine. near
Negaunee, Michigan. on the evening
of the Sth, a miner named MarstoD,
ascending from the bottom OF b shaft
IN a skip" in which ore is holsted,
stuck his head out at the third level and
il was cut off as though with q knife.
The dismembered head dropped $50
feet to the sixth level and struck a
miner on the arm. All the miners left
the mine Immediately and would not go
into it again. While John Hogan was
exhibiting a stallion neal Rockford.
Illinois. the animal knocked him down,
pressed on him with his knees and
Shook him with his teeth, causing
his death in a few minutes.
in a farm house nea Syracuse.
New York, n the 9th, John Holland,
aged II years, was found dead, and his
wife lay beside him, lust ailve." She
said he died ten days before from cold
and starvation.
DIR. Bridge. the State Veterinary
Surgeon, on the 9th, visited Manor
township, Lancaster county, Penna.,
and ordered to be killed three animals
belong to c. B, Herr, which were
The Penn's Grove record., 1887-04-16
The Gulf Streams Warmth.

The fact is well understood, of course,
that Great Britain and other parts Of
northwestern Europe owe much, in the
matter Of climate and temperature, to
the warming influence of the Gulf
Stream. The extent of the effect which
is thus produced, according to the cal
culations made by DR.. Croll, almost ex-
coed belief. or even comprehension, in
a mathematical sense. He has found,
by careful scientific estimate, that the
amount of heat conveyed northward in
the Atlantic by this stream is equiva-
lent to 77,47O, $50, 900, 900, DOC, 900 foot
pounds Of energy per day, which is
equal to all the heat received by l,560,-
O35 square miles at the equator, and
more heat than is conveyed by all the
air QUEENSLAND 50 positive is its eli
matte effect, and so far reaching, that,
according to DR.. Croll, the heat of the
Arctic seas and North Atlantic would
be diminished TO that immense extent
by the stoppage or diversion of the great
lopean river.